Vietnam vet from Suffern reunited with '68 radio tape

4:17 PM,
Mar. 2, 2014

Vietnam vets Roy Tschudy and Bruce McClintock of Suffern hold an original tape from Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow and a letter from a 1968 hour segment of WABC 77 broadcast sent to and dedicated to soldiers in Vietnam on Feb. 26, 2014.

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It was the Mekong Delta, late February or early March 1968, and one soldier from New York had heard enough local radio's offerings.

"All we got was Vietnamese or country and western," recalled Roy Tschudy, then an 18-year-old from the Bronx serving with the Army's 271st Aviation Company. "Country and western, for the guys from the South, they were grateful for it. But we're from New York, and we were like, 'You got to be kidding me.'"

So the Army specialist fourth class, two months into his tour of duty, took a break from perimeter duty and wrote to a popular Top 40 radio host back home, asking for ...